TalkingScot is (or was) a very popular web site for those researching Scottish ancestry. The site went offline abruptly but the TalkingScot Administration Group wants everyone to know that the problem is only temporary.
The following was written a few minutes ago by the TalkingScot Administration Group:
Dear TalkingScot member:
We are contacting you to confirm that TalkingScot is ALIVE!!
The company who owned the server shut it down giving no prior warning to those whose sites were stored there. The TalkingScot Administrative group has confirmed that ours is not the only web site affected - there are several others leaving posts to the same effect on the web. It came as a surprise to everyone, not just TalkingScot.
We have been successful in engaging the services of a new server host for TalkingScot. It is now down to how long the rebuild from backup materials will take.
One of the AG members will post a note www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=391114.new;topicseen#new as soon as we're up and running.
In the meantime, please feel free to share this e-mail with any of your TalkingScot connections, as we will be unable to contact ALL of the 3,000 plus members immediately.
We are looking forward to being back online as soon as possible and we thank you for your patience and support.
TalkingScot Administration Group
In the meantme, Electric Scotland site has set up a new discussion forum at its Aois community at www.scotchat.org/vbull/ - well worth a look.
Chris
Posted by: Chris Paton | July 10, 2009 at 05:06 AM
I tried the talkingscot web site at www.talkingscot.com and received an error saying Address not found. This is the address I found through a google search.
Posted by: Tommy Michaels | July 10, 2009 at 03:18 PM
Corrected Rootschat link for updates on TalkingScot
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,392427.from1247608244/topicseen.html#msg2637544
Posted by: marilyn morning | July 14, 2009 at 06:14 PM
Talking Scot is slowly coming back - they have a new URL - it's now http://talkingscot.co.uk/ so if you had it bookmarked, you need to change the bookmark from talkingscot.com to http://talkingscot.co.uk/
The forum is not yet working, but other parts of the site are present now.
Roger
Posted by: Roger Moffat | July 15, 2009 at 07:17 AM
Thanks for the updates Chris it's great to see even the bare bones of TalkingScot back-I have felt bereft without it!
Posted by: Jeannnette | July 15, 2009 at 06:20 PM
Another update here - yesterday talkingscot.co.uk - the address that it seemed they had moved to stopped working, and it turns out they're back on http://talkingscot.com/ The forum and gallery aren't back yet.
Roger
Posted by: Roger Moffat | July 24, 2009 at 10:34 AM